Murphy Cup: Peekskill-Cortlandt Daily Sports Digest May 7

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Murphy Cup

We thank Yorktown stats Emily Skibenes, Sara Gomes and Taylor Hubner and Lakeland/Panas stat Jesse Czuy for their cooperation in helping yours truly with the stats during the 23rd edition of the Charlie Murphy Cup, which was held under the lights at Lakeland High School on May 4:

Score by Quarters

First quarter (end of)-Game tied at 4-4

Halftime-Lakeland/Panas led 8-6

Third quarter (end of)-Yorktown led 11-10

Fourth quarter (final)-Yorktown 14-10

Final Stats

Yorktown (10-2)-Nick Mariano (five goals, two assists), Conor Gately (3 G, 2 A), Connor Vercruysse (2 G), Joey Sialiano (2 G), Joey Raniolo (1 G), Frankie Fusco (1 G), Brian Prestreau (1 A), Austin Graham (9 saves)

Lakeland/Panas (8-5)-Sean Murphy (4 G), Chris Monteferante (2 G), Tony LaGuerre (1 G, 1 A), Brian Prunty (1 G), Grant Perez (1 G), Ryan Bonifati (1 G), Frank Demuro (1 A), Andrew Sofroniou (1 A), Jimmy Flaherty (1 A), Mike Zingaro (13 saves)

Question and Answer

Yorktown junior Nick Mariano

Q. This is the proverbial, obvious question but what does it mean to win the Murphy Cup?

A. It’s probably the best feeling in the world. Mr. Murph created Yorktown lacrosse for us and just winning for him means the world to me. I met him once in my life and it just felt great meeting him.

Lakeland/Panas senior Chris Monteferante

Q. You played great in the first half. What were you doing right?

A. We played our game the whole game through. We didn’t really change much. In the second half they cut down on their mistakes and it showed. They are a very good team. Once they cut down on their mistakes, it was hard for us to generate some of those transition opportunities.

Yorktown coach Dave Marr

Q. What did you talk about at halftime that helped propel your team to the 14-10 victory?

A. Coach Lodey (Adam Lodewick) and Coach Carney (Sean Carney) took care of halftime. They stressed the fact that we weren’t playing very well in the first half in the sense that we weren’t moving our feet, we weren’t getting groundballs, we were getting outhustled and we needed to pick it up. In the second half we finally played hard throughout and did a good job.

Lakeland/Panas coach Jim Lindsay

Q. The first half you had things going for you, what did you think that you did right in that half?

A. We were playing hard. All of our kids were playing hard. We were playing with a lot of emotion. We were running hard when we had the ball on our stick. We were finishing shots which is something that we struggled with a little bit earlier in the year. That was it.

To their credit they weathered that storm and were only down 8-6. That score could’ve been a little bit more but we just were playing hard in the first half and that was the difference.

For a detailed game story, see Isaac Cass's great piece on MSG Varsity.

Brand, Philly Win

Peekskill graduate Elton Brand and the Philadelphia 76ers took a three games to one lead in their best of seven NBA first-round playoff matchup against the visiting Chicago Bulls with a 89-82 win Sunday afternoon according to ESPN.com.

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